When Everything Falls Apart

July 17, 2015

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.

Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been pardoned by Bahrain's king after his four months in jail for criticizing the government. Giving an interview to RT, he says:

This positive step towards me is a positive one, but you have thousands of other behind bars. They are behind bars just because of their struggle, or because they speak, because they criticize the government in a way or another.Those people have to be awarded and they have to be welcomed rather than to be put behind bars.

Another week, another mass shooting. In Chattanooga, the shooter (now dead), said to have ties to Islamist terror groups, kills four U.S. Marines.

What happens to an advocacy group when it finally gets what it wants? Freedom to Marry, having now won its prime goal of same-sex marriage equality, will now happily close up shop. NORML, I hope you're paying attention.

A candidate for the leadership of the UK Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, has been a supporter of homeopathy, and tweets what I think he presumes is a defense:

I believe that homeo-meds works for some ppl and that it compliments 'convential' meds. they both come from organic matter

Rebecca Leber at TNR looks at former White House chief of staff, and now Clinton campaign chair, John Podesta's intense interest in "the truth" about UFOs, and of the myriad FOIA requests on the subject posits, "It's somewhat surprising that they didn't seek to probe whether Podesta himself is an alien life form."

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Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids. His blog is Near-Earth Object, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.